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duty_n	child_n	law_n	parent_n	4,009	5	8.7116	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02143	Pandosto the triumph of time. VVherein is discouered by a pleasant historie, that although by the meanes of sinister fortune truth may be concealed, yet by time in spight of fortune it is most manifestlie reuealed. Pleasant for age to auoyde drowsie thoughtes, profitable for youth to eschue other wanton pastimes, and bringing to both a desired content. Temporis filia veritas. By Robert Greene Maister of Artes in Cambridge.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1588 (1588)	STC 12285; ESTC S108586	34,700	55

no whit puffed vp with pride but humbled her selfe as became a country mayde and the daughter of a poore sheepheard E●●ry day she went forth with her sheepe to the field keeping them with such care and diligence as al men thought she was verie painfull defending her face from the heat of the sunne with●●● other vale but with a garland made of bowes and flowers which atire became her so gallantly as shee seemed to bee the Goddesse Flora her selfe for beauty ● Fortune wh● al this while had shewed a frendly face began now to turne her back and to shewe a lowring countenance intending as she had giuen Fawnia a flenderchecke so she woulde g●●● her a harder mate to bring which to passe she layd her trains on this wise Egistus had but one only son called Dorastus aboue y e age of twenty yeeres a Prince so decked and adorned with the gifts of nature so fraught with beauty and vertuous qualities as not onely his father ioyed to haue so goode a sonne ● al his commons reioyced that God had lent them such a noble Prince to succeede in the Kingdom Egistus placing all his ioy in the perfection of his sonne seeing that hee was now mariage-able sent Embassadors to the King of Denmarke to intreate a mari●ge betweene him and his daughter who willingly consenting made answer that the 〈…〉 please Egistus with his sonne to come into Denmarke hee doubted not but they shoulde agrée vpon reasonable conditions Egistus resting satisfied with this friendly answer thought conuenient in the meane time to breake with his sonne finding therfore on a day fit oportunity he spake to him in these fatherly tearmes DOrastus thy youth warneth me to preuent the worst and mine age to prouide the best Oportunities neglected are signes of folly actions measured by time are seldome bitten with repentance thou art young and I olde age hath taught me that which thy youth cannot yet conceiue I therefore will counsell thee as a father hoping thou wilt obey as a childe Thou séest my white hayres are blossomes for the graue and thy freshe colour fruite for time and fortune so that it behooueth me to thinke how to dye and for thée to care how to liue My crowne I must leaue by death and thou enioy my Kingdome by succession wherein I hope thy vertue and prowesse shall bee such as though my subiectes want my person yet they shall see in thee my perfection That nothing either may faile to satisfie thy minde or increase thy dignities the onely care I haue is to see thee well marryed before I die and thou become olde Dorastus who from his infancy delighted rather to die with Mars in the Fielde then to dally with Venus in the Chamber fearing to displease his father and yet not willing to be wed made him this reuerent answere SIr there is no greater bond then duetie nor no straiter law then nature disobedience in youth is often galled with despight in age The commaund of the father ought to be a constraint to the childe so parentes willes are laws so they passe not all lawes may it please your Grace therefore to appoint whome I shall loue rather then by deniall I should be appeached of 〈…〉 re I rest content to loue though it bee the only thing I hate Egistus hearing his sonne to 〈◊〉 from the 〈◊〉 began to be somewhat chollericke another 〈…〉 WHat Dorastus canst thou not 〈…〉 cynicall passion of pr●ne de●●res or p●●uish ●●●wardnesse What dorst thou thinke thy selfe to good for all or none good inough for thee I tel thee Dorastus there is nothing sweeter then youth nor swifter decreasing while it is increasing Time past with folly may bee repented but not recalled If thou marrie in age thy w●●●es freshe couloures will breede in thee dead thoughtes and suspicion and thy white hayres her lothe somnesse and sorrowe For Venus affections are not fed with Kingdomes or treasures but with youthfull conceits and sweete amours Vulcan was allotted to shake the tree but Mars allowed to reape the fruit Yeelde Dorastus to thy Fathers perswasions which may preuent thy perils I haue chosen thee a Wife faire by nature royall by birth by vertues famous learned by education and rich by possessiōs so that it is hard to iudge whether her bounty or fortune her beauty or vertue bee of greater force I mean● Dorastus Euphania Daughter and h●ire to the King of Denmarke EGistus pausing here a while looking when his son should make him answere and seeing that he stoode still as one in a trance he shooke him vp thus sharply WEll Dorastus take he●de the tree Alpya wasteth not with fire but withereth with the dewe that which loue nourisheth not perisheth with hate if thou like Euphania thou breedest my content and in louing her thou shalt haue my loue● otherwise and with that hee flung from his sonne in a race leauing him a sorrowfullman in that he had by deniall displeased his Father and halfe angrie with him selfe that hee coulde not yeelde to that passion whereto both reason and his Father perswaded him but see how fortune is plumed with times feathers and ●ow shee can minister st●●●●ge causes to breede straunge effectes It happened not long ●fter this that 〈…〉 ng of all the farmers D●●●hters 〈…〉 whither F●●●●● was also bidden as the mistres of the feast who 〈…〉 her selfe in her best garments went among the rest of her companions to the merry meeting● there spending the day in such homely pastimes as shephea●●s vse As the euening grew on and their sportes ceased ech taking their leaue at other Fawnia desiring one of her companions to beare her companie went home by the flocke ●o see if they were well folded and as they returned it fortuned that Dorastus who all that daye had bene hawking and ●●●de store of game incountred by the way these two mayds and casting his eye sodenly on Fawnia he was halfe afraid fearing that with Acteon he had seene Diana for hee thought such ●●uisite perfection could not be founde many mortall creature As thus he stoode in ● maze one of his Pages told him that the maide with the garland on her head was Fawnia the faire shepheard whose beauty was so much talked of in the Court Dorastus desirous to see if nature had adorned her minde with any inward qualities as she had decked her body with outward shape began to question with her whose daughter she was of what age and how she had but trained vp who answered him with such madess reuerence and sharpnesse of witte that Dorastus thought her outward beautie was but a counterfait to darken her inward qualities wondring how so courtly behauiour could be found in so simple a cottage and cursing fortune that had shadowed wit and beauty with such hard fortune As thus he held her a long whise with that Beauty seeing him at discouer● thaught not to lose the ●●tage but strooke him in deepely with an inuenomed